Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,040, James M Franklin, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Franklin, James M. alias Canterbury, Sid
S. 31,040
CONTENTS

28972 James M. Franklin Pension
Certified
for 177- per m 27p #80.
cannot all be kept
Jas. C. Sprigg Shelbyville Ken

Timberlake Commanded Companies at the same place and in the same service, which was to guard the prisoners taken with Burgoyne. He was stationed at the Barracks more than two years. The prisoners in the Fall of 1781 were moved near to Winchester in Virginia. He marched under Capt. White to guard the prisoners. After the prisoners reached their new place of destination, we were marched from Winchester through the lower end of Culpepper, and crossed Rapp- -ahannan into Spottsylvania and thence to the Rocky Mill or Pamunkey, thence through the lower end of Henrico below Williamsburg and between that place and James Town we met a corps of the Bri- -tish Troops and had a skirmish with them & were beaten. Was slightly wounded in the arm with a shot. and also with a bayonet in the left elbow. Genl Wayne was then Commanding the detachment of the Army to which I then belonged. From the point last named he was marched to York, when Capt. Davenport took the Com- mand of our Company White being absent. After the surrender of Genl Wallis he was detailed with the troops to guard the prisoners, and was marched in that service to Winchester Virginia. He served as second sergeant in Capt. White's Company from the time days after  of his enlistment until he was discharged regularly. He does not recollect the precise day of his enlistment. We received a written discharge from Capt. Richd White at Winchester, he having assumed the Command of the Company before we

Shelby County and State of Kentucky
On this 10 th day of December in the year 1833 personally appeared before the County
Court of said County James M c Franklin a resident of the County of Spencer in the State aforesaid aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Gen- eral Assembly 7 th June 1832.
He states that he was born on the last day of October in the year 1763, as informed by his parents, in Orange County in the State of Virginia. That he was bound as an apprentice to a certain Thomas Staple of said County last named. That he ran off from said Thomas Staple and enlisted in the month of January in the year 1779 at the Barracks, seven miles from Charlottesville in Al- bemarle County in Virginia, as a private he served in the Army of the United States for the period of three years. He enlisted under the assumed name of Sid Canterbury. After his enlistment he was placed under the Command of Captain Richard White, attached to the 3 rd Virginia Regi- ment, under Command of Col. Francis Taylor. Richard Pollard was the Lieutenant of his Company. He remembers Genl. Wood who kept his Head Quarters at Charlottesville Capt. Garland Burley, Capt. Coleman Rice, Capt. [?]

Shelby County } On the 10 th day of December in the year State of Kentucky } personally appeared before the Court of said County now sitting, before Alvis a resident of said County aged seventy five years and known to the said Court as a pensioner of the United States, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath say that he knows James Franklin the Applicant who has subscribed the foregoing declaration, and that he knows him to be the same man who served under Capt. White in the year 1779 at the Bar- racks near Charlottesville in Virginia. That he knows that said Franklin enlisted in the Army of the Revolution, at the said Barracks by the name of Saml Canterbury and served as a soldier  under  the  command of but cannot say he was second sergeant. Capt. White's Company under that name. This App- licant was an enlisted soldier at the same time and was under the command of Capt. Holman Rice, and attached to the same Regiment that Canterbury as he was then called belonged to. This Applicant was at the said Barracks as an enlisted soldier before said Applicant enlisted, and was stationed there all the time until the prisoners were moved to near Winchester, and was well acquainted with said applicant. This Applicant was in the same detach- ment of the Army with said Applicant, and he believes on the same service with him until his the said applicant's term of enlistment expired and he has no doubt that said Applicant served as an enlisted soldier in the Army of the United States for the term of three years, and more than one and in The

Left York. He received his discharge in January 1782, and placed it in the hands of his elder brother Absalom who was an enlisted soldier and discharged at the same time. He and his brother separated very soon after that, and he has never seen him since, nor does he know where he is, nor what he done with this applicant's discharge. He states that he served as an enlisted soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as before stated for the term of three years commencing in January 1779, and ending in January 1782, and in the rank of second  first sergeant of his Company. He has now no documentary evidence of the services herefore stated to have been rendered by him, nor does he now know of any living witness by whom he can prove said services but says Alvin of Shelby County Kentucky. He states that for the convenience of said Alvin who is quite old, he has thought proper to make his declaration in the Shelby County where he now resides resides. He cannot now offer any proof to the Court  also states where he now resides as to the general belief in the neighborhood where he resides of his having served in the Revolutionary war. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any state or Territory of the United States. He states that he has resided in Kentucky for 43 years past and before that he has been in and subscribed the day and year aforesaid resided in the state of Virginia in Henrico County. He states no person in this County by whom he make proof as to the general belief of his neighborhood as to his services in the Revolution, or to make proof as to his age, and his distance from his neighborhood does not allow of him at present to prove such facts. as aforesaid Given to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
James M. Franklin

Mourner said applicant has stated in his declaration, which this applicant has heard deliberately read to him. This applicant saw him frequently acting as Sergeant in Capt. White's Company after January 1879.
Leve X Alvis
Subscribed and sworn to in open Court on the 10th day of December 1880. before said Court.
M m Shanks P. J. H. C. C.
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And the said Court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the Board of Pensions , that the above named James M c Franklin was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that they are fully satisfied from various interrogatories put to him, and from the marks & scars shown to us by him upon his arm that he was wounded as he states in his declaration; and the Court is fully satisfied that said Franklin has long maintained a fair and respectable character, and his statements are entitled to full credit. and that he is of the age of seventy and upwards: And the Court further certifies that upon examination of said Applicant Leve Alvis that the statements contained in his affidavit above subscribed are true, and they further certify that said Alvis is a man of good character for truth and his statements are entitled to credit. Said Alvis is known to the court to be a pensioner of the United States and is a resident of Shelby County, and said Franklin to be a resident of Spencer County, Kentucky.
M m Shanks P. J. H. C. C.

I James L. Whitaker Clerk of the Court of Shelby County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court on the matter of the application of James M. Franklin for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 19 th day of December 1833.
J. L. Whitaker Clerk Shelby County Court

31040 Rev INVALID.
File No. 31,040
James M. Franklin Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 144
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Dec. 21, 1895 Letter to Benj B. Frank Astoria, Oreg

Send me the pension papers on the case of James Franklin - Virginia line - Rev. war died about 12 years ago
For the com - or 66 - June 1 - 1852

REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE.
O. W. & N. Div.
MEMORANDA.
not 11 W
Please supply as much as possible of the data called for below.
Full name of soldier:
James Franklin
Place of residence before service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Richman Va
Place of residence after service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Spencer City Ky
Date of death (as near as possible):
He died in 1833 or 1834
Christian name of widow:
I don't know her name
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
Father received a pension
Remarks:
my mother died first and
my father married again
I don't know her christian name
Your name and address:
Benjamin B. Franklin
Astoria Clatsop County
Astoria Oregon

O. W. & N. Div.
F. S. Ex.
SR Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington. D. C., Sept. 17, 1895
Respectfully returned to
Mr. Benj. B. Franklin,
Astoria, Oregon.
For purposes of identification please fill out the enclosed slip as fully as possible and return same to this Bureau with your letter of Sept. 2; also state for what purpose you desire the information.
only to know whether he was a pensioner or not I was young when he died and have been told that he drew a pension
J. M. Lockhart
Commissioner.

Astoria, Or., 2 nd Rep tr
189
U.S. Pension Agent.
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
If it is not too much trouble I would like to find out whether my father drew his pension under the name he enlisted under viz, Jas Madison or under his own name Jas. M. Franklyn, it would be about the year 1830 to 1833. It was in the Revolutionary war, kindly do this & you will oblige, yours respect ly Benj B. Franklyn
My father was a Sound Boy and enlisted in the name of James Madison he ran away from his Master
Mr J. M. Franklin on J. " " " " " W " " " " " R